I want to exclude some directories from an archive using the PASE tar command on an IBMi but the [-X Exclude File] option doesn't seems to work for me.
I tried using an exclude file that just contained a file name (/home/JSMITH/data/sub2/file2.txt) and then one that just contained a pattern (*.txt), and neither archive operation omitted anything.
Given the following directory structure:
/home/JSMITH/data
/home/JSMITH/data/sub1
/home/JSMITH/data/sub1/file1.txt
/home/JSMITH/data/sub2
/home/JSMITH/data/sub2/file2.txt
/home/JSMITH/data/sub3
/home/JSMITH/data/sub3/file3.txt
and the following command:
/qopensys/usr/bin/tar -cvf /home/JSMITH/test.tar -X /home/JSMITH/excludes.txt /home/JSMITH/data
The entire /home/JSMITH/data structure gets included in the resulting archive.
I have tried using the /home/JSMITH/excludes.txt file with either of these contents:
/home/JSMITH/data/sub2/file2.txt
or
*.txt
How does one exclude files/directories/patterns from the IBMi PASE tar command?
You need the full path in the exclude file.
I created mine via ls /home/JSMITH/data/*.txt > /home/JSMITH/excludes.txt
If you're doing it by hand, make certain you haven't got any trailing whitespace.
Also, I used Notepad++ when I created mine by hand. I found that the green screen edtf created an EBCDIC file with CRLF in it, and that didn't exclude for me.
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If the beginning of my cloc --vcs git output is something like the following:
1826 text files.
1780 unique files.
384 files ignored.
Question 1: Is there a way to get a list of all the files ignored by the cloc command?
Also, if I instead run cloc "repo_name", it shows a completely different number of files.
2106 text files.
1981 unique files.
346 files ignored.
Question 2: How can I get a list of which files are being skipped when running the --vcs command?
#1, Ref. the --ignored switch in the documentation (either at https://github.com/AlDanial/cloc or via cloc --help):
--ignored=<file> Save names of ignored files and the reason they
were ignored to <file>.
#2, --vcs git uses git ls-files to get the list of files to count. Without this, cloc does a recursive search in the given directory. If only a subset of files in "repo_name" are under git control, or if you have entries in .gitignore, the two methods of getting file names will differ. This is also explained in the documentation.
git ls-files --other
will show files that aren't under git control.
I made this script below to make a backup of some files. It works fine, but i wanted make a list for the files that need be skipped from compressing.
For example:
my list.txt has all the files that will be compressed. But i wanted to make another list for the files that need be skipped, like exclusion_list.txt. Actually i put all files that i want be ignored from compressing into the command line, as shown below -x*\Test1 -x*\Test2.
But i really wanted to make a exclusion list for not keep changing the command line everytime i need to exclude a file or folder.
How i can do it?
"%winrar%\winrar.exe" a -x*\Test1 -x*\Test2 -ibck -ep1 -ilog%userprofile%\Desktop\log.log "compressed %date:/=.%.rar" "#list.txt"
From the documentation: the exclusion option -x also supports a list file when it is preceded by #:
"%winrar%\winrar.exe" a -x#exclusion_list.txt -ibck -ep1 -ilog%userprofile%\Desktop\log.log "compressed %date:/=.%.rar" "#list.txt"
with the file exclusion_list.txt containing:
*\Test1
*\Test2
By the way, there is even a console version of WinRAR, called rar.exe, which is a non-GUI version.
I have a folder containing number of files with extensions in .xvg format and i need to change them into .dat format. How can i do that..?
What are the commands that i need to give such that all those files extensions that are in .xvg format are converted into .dat format [without the file name getting changed,(example., abc.xvg should be converted into abc.dat),only file extension should be changed].
Try this
rename 's/.xvg$/.dat/' *.xvg
For a test run you can use this command:
rename 's/.xvg$/.dat/' *.xvg -vn
-v means "verbose" and it will output the names of the files when it renames them.
-n will do a test run where it won't rename any files, But will show you a list of files that would be renamed.
I would like to rename Multiple files in a Unix Directory using Ksh Command.
Eg ATT8-2011-10-01 00:00:00-MSA-IMM-SINGLE_AND_FAMILY_COVERAGE-DED-$2000-X114817.PDF
needs to be renamed as
ATT8-2011-10-01-MSA-IMM-SINGLE_AND_FAMILY_COVERAGE-DED-$2000-X114817.PDF
Basically the time portion which is always 00:00:00 needs to be stripped off and the space between the date and the next hyphen symbol (-) needs to be compressed.
Any ideas as to how to this ? Assuming they are about 3000 files in the directory.
On some systems, there is a Perl-based rename command (sometimes called prename) and you'd write:
rename 's/ 00:00:00//' *" 00:00:00-"*
If you don't have that, find it. If you can't find it, then you have more work to do. However, the work is searching on SO. For example, Underscore in rename command (Perl and Unix shell) has a link to one version of the prename (Perl rename) command.
I have a folder with 2508 files (jpg and pdf) in it on my drive. I have a list in a .txt file of about 1000 files which I want to remove from that folder - either by deleting to trash, or removing to another folder.
Is there a utility - or possibly commands I can put into the terminal - which I can use to do this, without manually moving files while looking through my list?
(Context: The list is a list of orphaned image files put out by Dreamweaver - which I want to remove from the images folder of a given site)..
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.
Put this in the terminal:
cat filename-of-list-with-files | xargs rm